Tag: insects
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75 years later: Family-owned insect museum showcases the bizarre
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Over 120 years ago, James May was hunting bugs in Brazil; using beer to get butterflies drunk before catching them. “It’s pretty bizarre,” said May’s great-granddaughter, Diana Fruh, one of the heirs to the 100,000-specimen collection. The May Natural History Museum on the southern edge of Colorado Springs has been a local hidden gem for…
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Brazil’s health agents scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos to fight dengue epidemic
Local public health officials in Rio de Janeiro have been scouring the city’s neighborhoods and even its junkyards for signs of standing water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs